Reply To: frum clown, or clowning around?

As usual this is something to discuss with your rov. But if you get paid and its for parnassah, or if its to cheer up sick ppl, or a tool to be mekarev ppl like last weeks mishpacha magazine had with the travelling musicians, then you have good grounds. There’s a famous gemara where eliyahu hanavi said that the only 2 ppl in the entire marketplace who would go directly to gan eden were the 2 letzonim who went around cheering ppl up from their bad matzav. There’s nothing at all wrong with a shticky guy!